"Hey hey hey, what are you doing revealing yourself Polka?" Takumi worriedly ranted, having seen Polka revealing his true form to a customer
At the adjacent room, Civil had seen everything through Takumi's monitor.
"Ho… This girl is quite interesting herself"
"What do you mean by that?" Takumi asked, confused at what he meant about Yayoi
"You're a normal human so I will just explain things to you. This girl has imbued a part of herself with a power on par with Riz. Moreover, that spirit seems to be in league with the young girl over there. I mean, she just held off your friend's attempt to pass her on"
"Held off…you mean the spirit bested Polka?"
"Not 'bested', just 'held off'. Besides, Polka was just holding back though, trying to gauge how much powerful of a soul that woman is."
Takumi breathed a sigh of relief. He never thought someone would be able to defeat Polka
"For a second, I thought someone would be able to defeat Polka."
"Perhaps that little girl can. For now, we'll stay put."
"Stay put?"
"No one leaves the building until she leaves the building. In other words, she already had us cornered from the beginning."
"From the beginning?"
What Civil warned sent shivers through Takumi's spine. He had already seen enough anomalies since Polka came into picture, but this one had him at a loss.
How can a little girl take the whole occupants hostage? Wait, if she's capable of doing that, Is it possible that girl is also as powerful as Polka's?
Simply imagining it brought him the creeps.
At the fortune-telling room, the tensions are high as ever. Neither Yayoi nor Polka could let their guard down.
This little girl doesn't have the Evil Eye, but she has forged a contract with the woman that sliced off my arms. Is this what the people on this world called 'exorcists' or something? And who was that woman accompanying her? Its spiritual pressure is denser than that of Civil.
Polka was completely lost on his thoughts.
He would never imagine that people in this world have powers that are similar to his.
All of a sudden, the pure-white aura slowly begins to emerge. Yayoi kept her guard up, thinking it would be an attack.
It was the opposite, and it completely took Yayoi by surprise.
That white aura… is in the plushie shark?
A small plushie shark emerged behind Polka's back. The plushie shark kept waving their heads and flapping their dorsal fins at Yayoi, as if he was telling her not to attac
D….rt…lk…a…please….spare….
The first who understood it was the Maiden. She was focused at the shark that she was able to decipher its thoughts.
Please, don't hurt the fake Polka, spare him
Yayoi noticed the shark communicate to the Maiden, who then relays his intentions to her;
What was it trying to say?
It wants us not to harm that boy.
The fortune-teller? Why?
I have no clear thoughts as to why, but it seems that it doesn't want us to harm the boy. Besides that, there's something more powerful below that I can't even handle it by myself.
Fine then, but don't let your guard down. We may not know what other kind of curse that boy will throw at us.
Yayoi kept her guard up, still pointing at the fortune-teller.
Something more powerful? That means another S+ ranked here? By any means, handling one right here is enough. I need to keep them off
"That's a dangerous thing for a little girl like you to be handling" Polka struck a conversation first, hoping to ease Yayoi down.
"Zip it, I've been pretty used to that dangerous thing for about a few weeks ago."
Polka was shocked at what she said. In fact, everyone in the room aside from Yayoi and the Maiden were shocked
A few weeks? How... impressive. To tame such a powerful and vengeful spirit in a short amount of time.
Wearing the Ring of Marbas from the Route I, the girl begins to interrogate Polka at knifepoint. Polka noticed even greater power from the ring itself, causing him to worry about what will happen from now on.
"First things first, take that plushie off your shoulders."
Polka has no choice but to comply. Obviously, Yayoi has the upper hand. He took the shark plushie off his shoulders and set it on the table.
"Good. So this is the real Polka Shinoyama, right?"
"How do you know?"
"I've seen a fair share of ghosts trapping the owner's spirits into an object, or something else."
That was new to the fake Polka, in his few months since arriving to Shinjuku, he had never been familiar with other ghosts possessing the living. This wasn't the case with Yayoi since her encounter with Dorothy Flamsteed, or whoever's possessing her.
"So tell me, what is your purpose here that you decided to trap the real Polka inside a doll?" Yayoi asked him in a more interrogative manner
Polka would really like to lie his way out just to buy some time, but given the reason of her visit earlier associated with his past life, as well as revealing each of their card at hand, perhaps telling her the truth would ease up the misunderstanding.
"I ca-"
Before Polka could even explain, a sudden burst of the door cuts through their conversation.
"RIZ!!"
It was Xiaoyu. He was able to carefully maneuver his way out of the basement and into the fortune-telling room. He sees the girl holding the white-haired boy at knife- perhaps at laserpoint, as well as the plushie shark with the real Polka.
That kid, that's the person who did this?
"What are you going to do to Lord Polka!!" Xiaoyu yelled as he attacks Yayoi with his mechanical right arm.
His fingers/blades extended to the point of becoming a semi-noodle state. Unfortunately for him, the presence of the Maiden caused his fingers to be ripped to shreds. This allowed Yayoi to maneuver easily through Xiaoyu before delivering a strong punch to his solar plexus, sending him flying into a wall that knocked him unconscious. This made both Eiko and Keitaro jump in surprise, they knew something bad happened. On the other hand Misaki's murderous aura increased. She was finally able to deduce what transpired inside the room.
"Heehee... I didn't expect a kid like you to be able to corner Polka like this" she grinned manically as she lunges straight to attack Yayoi.
The Maiden intervened and slashes her throat with her power, causing Misaki to momentarily drop dead on the floor. Blood was spilling out of her body as the curse continuously expanded to the point of decapitation. Seems like she's dead...
However...
"My my, that won't do"
This caught Yayoi and the rest of her group in surprise. In an instant, Misaki's headless body rose up by itself, manically laughing as it picked up her head and put it back to her body. All of a sudden, the Maiden showed up before Misaki in her ethereal form
"As I thought, you're not human"
"To think that a cute little ghost like you was the one slashing around in the building with your hands...Heehee...this is going to be fun"
Having seen enough, Polka decided to intervene, increasing the effects of his sanctuary to the point that the Maiden couldn't catch up. Yayoi caught up with his intentions as she sees the Maiden preparing to battle Misaki
It's okay, I'll back you up. Yayoi conveyed to the Maiden
Not letting Polka's Sactuary restore itself, she brought up another graduate, an alien-shaped doll. Keitaro and Eiko braced themselves, knowing what graduate is she using. Polka sensed another massive power coming from the doll and warns everyone
"EVERYONE, BRACE YOURSELVES"
Yayoi then chants its release command
CRUSH THEM, SPIRIT IN A TRANSITIONAL PERIOD